By ignoring him, really.
this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2025
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Pretty much. He has the attention span of a toddler so he'll find a different target soon enough.
Most countries have a strategy tuned to their particular needs, and experience learned from last time. As I recall it often involved flattering Trump and building relationships with his subordinates.
exactly, and remain in diplomatic contact with the civil servants and politicians he has not infected
What I also don’t understand is why he blames the victim (Ukraine) and cozies up to putin. Not even Reagan would have done something like that.
Reagan just blamed domestic victims of systemic racism and bigotry like black and gay people, not other countries!
Reagan did plenty of victimizing in Central America. Admittedly it was more ideological and not as self-serving as Trump.
The U.S. has always been bullies, fundamentalists, militant, entitled. All the things you don't want in an ally. Yes, the U.S. is worse now. (I'm American, by the way.) But I hope U.S. allies have kindof seen this coming and made arrangements to weather this sort of thing, even if it lasts forever. Myabe that was kindof the point of the E.U., for instance.
The U.S. isn't the only country going off the rails, though. Think of Brexit, for instance. I'm not saying the U.K. government is anywhere near as... quite frankly openly fascist as the U.S.'s is right now, but at least the U.K. isn't immune. Unfortunately no country is.
It's probably a good thing I'm not a national leader because the first thing I'd do is recall all diplomats and cut off relations. He wants isolationism? Give it to him and let him feel it for real, not just his tough-guy head-canon version of it.
Use whatever human rights violation justifications necessary (shouldn't be hard) to hit the US in the wallet. Cut off US businesses from customers abroad. Expel military personnel. Pull travel visas. All the tricks America uses against everyone else. Make the people feel the inconvenience of not being a world citizen.
Same as we did last time. Strengthen our relationships and trade with friendly non-US countries.
came to say this. pretty much have to wait it out and strengthen each other and be ready to interceed if trump does anything to crazy.
Tariff.
When he threatens us, raise it 1%. If he raises a tariff of 5%, raise ours 5%. Also, of course we drop out of new-nafta.
They drop their tariff 4%, we drop our tariff 4%. New president, tariffs are 0% again.
We need to buy their shit for now, but I hear Greenland is due for a new port.
Over here?
- Create a common EU army
- Put EU defense bases on Greenland
- Invite Canada to become a EU member
- Build an anti-immigrant wall on the EU-USA border and make the Americans pay for it
Am canuk, id love to join the EU please.
Win a trade war, then wait for his mind to drift to fanboying for dictators for life, just like last time.
By hoping it’s only 4 years.
Weaponized incompetence and flattery
We go golfing and he wins. Then we make a business deal and he wins again. The press takes pictures and he looks like a huge successful winner. Then I go back to doing my job.
Ignoring him and getting better ties with China